A pupil of Richard Clague, New Orleans' first major landscapist, William Henry Buck became his successor in that city. He specialized in formula paintings of dramatic oak trees, adopting his... Read full biography
A pupil of Richard Clague, New Orleans' first major landscapist, William Henry Buck became his successor in that city. He specialized in formula paintings of dramatic oak trees, adopting his teacher's compositional format. Buck emigrated from Norway to Boston and spent some time in the New England... Read full biography
A pupil of Richard Clague, New Orleans' first major landscapist, William Henry Buck became his successor in that city. He specialized in formula paintings of dramatic oak trees, adopting his teacher's compositional format. Buck emigrated from Norway to Boston and spent some time in the New England area before settling in New Orleans around 1860. While studying with Clague, he was employed in the cotton business. In the 1880's, he devoted himself full-time to painting, His work was included at... Read full biography
A pupil of Richard Clague, New Orleans' first major landscapist, William Henry Buck became his successor in that city. He specialized in formula paintings of dramatic oak trees, adopting his teacher's compositional format. Buck emigrated from Norway to Boston and spent some time in the New England area before settling in New Orleans around 1860. While studying with Clague, he was employed in the cotton business. In the 1880's, he devoted himself full-time to painting, His work was included at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition held in New Orleans in 1884-85. ----------------------------------------------------------------------. William Henry Buck emigrated from Norway to Boston, where he first studied painting, but... Read full biography
A pupil of Richard Clague, New Orleans' first major landscapist, William Henry Buck became his successor in that city. He specialized in formula paintings of dramatic oak trees, adopting his teacher's compositional format. Buck emigrated from Norway to Boston and spent some time in the New England area before settling in New Orleans around 1860. While studying with Clague, he was employed in the cotton business. In the 1880's, he devoted himself full-time to painting, His work was included at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition held in New Orleans in 1884-85. ----------------------------------------------------------------------. William Henry Buck emigrated from Norway to Boston, where he first studied painting, but moved to New Orleans where he lived out the rest of his life. He became the leading landscape artist of this time, painting the bay... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (13)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Leeds, Valerie (Essay)
88 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950
1991
Pennington, Estill Curtis
208 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
1989
Pennington, Estill Curtis
200 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection
1978
Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent
244 pages (color)
The Louisiana Landscape 1800-1969
1969
Anglo-American Art Museum
48 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index